Metallic bedstead.



L. FRANK & J. COOPER.

METALLIC BEDSTEAU.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. I. |315.A

Patented J an. 2, 1917.

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LOUIS FRANK, OF BROOKLYN, AND JOSEPH COOPER, OF N EW YORK, N. Y.,ASSIGNORS TO GREENPOINT METALLIC BED COMPANY, OF BROOKLYN, OF DAVIDFRANK, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, JOHN TROUNSTINE, OF

NEW YOEK, coivrrosED NEW YORK,

n. Y., AND WILLIAM LIEs, or EEooIiLYn, NEW YORK.

METALLIC BEDs'rEAD.

Application led March 1, 1915.

To all lwhom t may concern.-

Be it known that we, Louis FRANK, a subject of the Czar of Russia, and aresident of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York,(whose post-office address is 159 Milton street, Brooklyn, New York,)and JOSEPH COOPER, a subject of the Czar of Russia, residing in New Yorkcity, in the county and State of New York, whose postofiice address is406 East Twentieth street, New York city, New York,) have inventedcertain new and useful 1mrovements in Metallic Bedsteads, of which thefollowing is a. specification.

' The invention pertains more particularly to metal bedsteads whose headand foot frames are of ornamental character and composed mainly oftubing, the tubing sometimes being rectangular in cross-section and atother times of other shape in crosssection.

The object of the present invention is to provide means for furtherornamenting and varying the style of the head and foot frames of tubularmetal bedsteads, and more particularly to provide constructions of headand foot frames having cane panels therein, these panels serving torender said frames ornate and to permit those modifications in head andfoot frames serving to render the bedsteads quite different in designfrom one another and of attractive character.

The invention will be fully understood from the detailed descriptionhereinafter presented, reference 4being had to the vaccompanyingdrawings, in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of an end frame for a metal bedsteadequipped with the cane-panel features constituting our invention; Fig. 2is an enlarged view of a portion of the same and showing moreparticula-rly those portions of said frame which receive and hold thecane-panel; Fig. 3 is a horizontal section, partly broken away and on alarger scale, through the central portions of the end frame shown inFig. 1; Fig. 4 is an enlarged horizontal section through a portion ofthe end frame, this section being taken about on the dotted line 1f-4cof Fig. 5 and Fig. 4l illustrating a some` what different form of frameto receive the edges of the cane panel from the frame an- Speccation ofLetters Patent.

'Patented Jan. 2, 1971*?.

Serial No. 11,183.

swering the same purpose shown in Fig. 3, and Fig. 5 is a detached faceview, onV a smaller scale, of a portion of the end frame represented inFig. 4L, Fig. 5 showing what may be termed the inner face of the endframe.

In the drawings, 10 Vdesignates an end fra-me for a metal bedstead, saidframe comprising corner posts 11,v upper and lower transverse tubularmembers 12 connecting said corner posts and vertical rods or members 13,11 extending between and connecting said horizontal members 12. Thevertical members 13, 111 vary in character and dispositiombut are ofordinary construction, and in the present instance the vertical members11 are sufficiently separated from each other to create an outline aswell as support for the panel 15 formed of cane in sheet form, the sheetbeing made from strips woven together according to well-known methods,

The vertical tubular members 14: have secured upon their facing sidesmetallic channel strips or frame sections 16 and upon the facing sidesof the horizontal members 12 are secured corresponding metallic channelstrips or frame sections 17 .(Fig. 2i), the strips 16, 17 forming acontinuous grooved frame secured to the adjacent members of the bedsteadframe and being preferably formed from sheet metal and secured inposition by solder. The cane-panel 15 has its edges secured within thegrooves of the channel frame sections 16, 17 and stretches over thelentire outline defined by said sections.

Ordinarily the edges of the cane-panel 15 are folded over and enteredwithin the grooves aEorded by the frame sections 16, 17 and theresecured by driving a reed or wire rod or the like 18 down into suchgrooves and between the folded-over portions at the edges of the panel15. After the reed or rod 18 has been introduced to the position shownin Fig. 3 binding the cane-panel 15 in position, the inner sides of theframes 16, 17 may be forced outwardly to a slight extent to pinch saidreed or rod and thus aid in firmly securing the panely in position.

The metallic frame sections 16, 17 will vary in dimensions in accordancewith the position they are to occupy and the, general,

of the bed and a longer side over which* the cane extends.

ln the construction shown in Figs.`1',12 and 3 the cane-panel 15 is, byreason of the longer sides 20 of' the frame sections V16, 17

set inwardly to some considerable extent' from the outer vertical planeof the bedstead frame. The eiect may be varied by 1nodifying the depthof the sides 20, so that the .are secured at cane-panel 15 may be givenjust the desired location with relation to the outer and inner verticalplanes of the bedstead end. frame.

ln the construction shown in Figs. tV and 5 the metallic channel-framenumberedV therein as 21 is more shallow than the channel frame madeofthe sections 16, 17 hereinbefore referred to, and hence the settinginwardly of the cane-panel is less pronounced with the use of theshallow channel .frame 21 than when the sections 16, 17 are made use of.rlhe edges of the cane-panel, numbered 22 in Figs. 4 and 5,'theseiigures showing a modiiication, are forced? intov the grooves of theframe 21 and there held by means of reedsY or wire rods 23 which in'addition to rbeing pinched between the sides of the Vframe 21 areadditionally secured by means of small metallic strips 24 which one endto the members of the bedstead frame and capable of being bent over uponthe reeds or rods 28'. There may be Vas many of the strips 24C employedas desired, but usually only a few of such strips willv be necessary.

Our invention presents a novel style of end frame for metal bedsteads inthat said frame embraces a woven cane-panel with suitable means forsecuring the same in position. VWe have illustrated the panel as eX-tending the full height of the end frame, but do not limit our inventionto ythis arrange- Copies of this patent may beobtained for ve centseach, by addressing the Commissioner o! Iate'nts,

VInent of `the invention of the panels will be extended vhorizontallyfor some endA frames and others vertically and it will not be necessaryat anytime -to so construct the end steadthat the panel must Y the fullheight of such end frame. We haveA necessarily extend thereforeillustrated one general embodi without meaning thereby to limit theapplication of our invention to bedstead end frames of any spe-' theapplication of cial character other than ourinvention thereto'mayrequire.

Vhat we claim as our invention and desire to secure by Letters-Patent,is:

1. An end-frame comprising metal corner posts, transverse membersconnecting the same, vertical inem'- bers connecting said transversemembers and a wovenl cane panel interposed in said end frame and securedat its edgesto portions Y of membersV thereof, said portions havingaffixed thereto channel sections for receiving folded-over edges of saidpanel and strips for wedging said edges in said sections, andV metalvstrips being provided to be bent over onsaid wedge strips for securingthe same insaid channel sections. j

2. Anend-.frame for a metal bedstead comprising metal corner posts,transverse members a woven cane Vpanel interposedin saidiend frame andsecured at its edges to portions .of members thereof, said portionshaving af# fixed thereto channel sections for receiving folded-overedges of said panel and strips for wedgingsaid edges in saidfsections,means4 being provided for securing( said strips in said channelsections.

' LOUIS FRANK.

Vitnesses: ,t V ARTHUR MARION, CHAs. C. GILL.

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